I felt a great disturbance throughout the Internet, as if millions of blog readers suddenly cried out in terror. I was shocked to read that Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. I’ve used Google Reader nearly every day for the past several years to read the news, follow my favorite blogs, and subscribe to many helpful RSS feeds. It’s my most frequently used app on my phone and tablet. What will I do without it?

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Not long ago, a friend told me that he hoped to buy a certain piece of used equipment on Craigslist. He said that he frequently went to the Craigslist website and searched for the name of the equipment he wanted to buy.

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that I use Google Reader to pull content from all over the Internet and read it all in one place. My friend’s situation made me wonder if a Craigslist …

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Pinterest, a rapidly growing social networking site, has a fun pinboard-style layout for sharing photos. Although I am not currently an active user of Pinterest, I created an account and am experimenting with it. You can find me at http://pinterest.com/dustinwcpa.

I don’t log in to Pinterest often, so I follow my friends’ boards in Google Reader. I use Google Reader to subscribe to blogs, news websites, and other RSS feeds. It’s my way of consuming social media content all in one …

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I previously wrote a blog post about how I have been using RSS feeds to stay current on the news. The majority of the feeds that I subscribe to are news and blogs, but there are a few that don’t fall under either of these categories that I have found to be useful.

Tweets of a few individuals. I follow about 200 people on Twitter and I can’t log in to Twitter enough times to keep up with every single tweet of the …

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Over the past few months, I’ve been much more efficient in reading news, blogs, and other websites that interest me. I now read twice the content in half the time! In this blog post, I’m going to give my secret away.

You might have noticed a little orange button on some websites like the one on the right. I had seen them for a long time, and always wondered what they were. It is a logo for RSS (“Really …